Sun Yunmei agreed, "My daughter is right. You're destined to be a busy and worrying person. That mountain isn't small either. It would be good to set up a breeding farm there."
"Mingjing, how come you're so smart?" Sun Yunmei liked him more and more as she looked at him. "I wonder which young man will be lucky enough to win him over in the future."
When the topic turned to her son-in-law, Sun Yunmei got excited, "Mingjing, what do you think of Xie Junan?"
"That young man is good. He helped me with the chicken coop earlier and didn't mind the dirt when he was carrying manure. He's a retired soldier. He'll be a seaman in the future, and who knows, he might even become an officer. He has a bright future."
Ming Dahai arranged flowers, his face beaming with uncontrollable joy.
"Oh, Mom and Dad, don't worry about me. I'm only seventeen, what's the rush?"
"Why aren't you in a hurry? Er Ya, who is the same age as you, already has a child who can run errands. You're young and recover quickly. Don't be like me, whose health has been deteriorating day by day since I gave birth to Mingyue."
"While I can still move around and help you with chores and take care of the kids..."
Sun Yunmei always felt that it was good to have children when you were young, but when you get old, you feel uncomfortable everywhere. She hoped that Mingjing would have someone to rely on as soon as possible.
"Mingjing, or how about Bai Xiaoye? He's rich and good-looking, but his family lives too far away. Or I can find you a matchmaker. Want to find a handsome guy?"
Sun Yunmei kept nagging, and Mingjing couldn't stand it, so she turned around and went back into the house.
The next morning, Mingjing got up very early, opened the fishing tackle shop, and his luck stat was 370.
At the dock, the old man was repairing the hull. The fuel tank had been cleaned, the engine was still being installed, but the small boat had been repaired and even oiled.
It's basically capable of going out to sea, but it can't go too far.
We can only go back to the puddle from last time.
Mingjing plans to go to sea tomorrow, but before she sets sail, she needs to go to the Forestry Bureau to learn about the situation on the barren mountain.
The responsibilities of the Forestry Bureau are still quite vague. There is a department that specifically manages logging, another that protects wild animals, and even a department that is involved in land management.
Mingjing arrived at the Forestry Bureau lobby and bent down to inquire about contracting barren mountains from the staff.
I learned that even barren hills that no one wants on the island are within the scope of the Forestry Bureau's registration, and you need to prepare various materials if you want to contract them.
You have to register with the forestry bureau first, then go to the village to get a contract certificate, and then come back to pay the contract fee according to the standard price, which is 78 yuan per mu.
Mingjing estimated that the barren mountain area was at least fifteen acres, which wasn't unacceptable.
The process is just too complicated; it will take at least several months.
After registering at the Forestry Bureau, Mingjing went home to discuss the contract certificate with Mingdahai, only to hear him sighing in the yard.
"Mingjing, you're back. I woke up late today, it looks like I'll miss the sea voyage. Why didn't you wake me up?"
He planted the trees too late yesterday, so he slept until 11:30 this morning.
"Dad, the boat has just been repaired. It's perfect to go tomorrow. I just got back from the Forestry Bureau."
Mingjing told Mingdahai about needing a certificate, which greatly worried him.
Zhang Ping is still the village head, and this matter will be difficult to handle if he doesn't agree.
"Mingjing, ask Officer Wang when Village Chief Zhang will be released. Things could get complicated if we wait too long."
Mingjing picked up her mobile phone and called Wang Yong. After learning that Zhang Ping would probably be able to get out tomorrow, she hung up the phone.
"September is the perfect time to go out to sea. This time we'll buy another hundred fish traps and plenty of bait. We're sure to have a great catch this time."
Ming Dahai was unwilling to settle for his meager harvest of thirty-odd fish; a hundred fish traps meant a greater catch of seafood.
"Dad, don't worry. The small boat is repaired, but the big boat is still undecided and can't go to the deep sea. We can buy fish traps to stock up on. I'll buy them."
"I'll go with you. How can a girl like you manage to get so much? Don't get ripped off."
Ming Dahai asked Sun Yunmei for a thousand yuan and rode his tricycle to take Mingjing to the fishing tackle shop in town, as the village store didn't have that much stock.
Near the fishing tackle shop, Mingjing got out of the car under the pretext of going to the restroom, intending to check the system first, as the last thing he used worked quite well.
She found a secluded alley, opened a fishing tackle shop, and browsed the page. With her current points, buying a decent fish trap and net wouldn't be a problem.
The fish traps in the store are divided into three grades.
The first category is the ordinary category, where you can catch a whole basketful of small fish and shrimp.
The second tier offers medium-quality goods, including large crabs and sea bream, which are fine.
Tier 3 is high-end, with a 90% catch rate for rare and valuable fish, but it is also four times more expensive than the others, costing 3,000 points.
It also comes with expensive bait and two fishhooks.
Mingjing gritted her teeth and still chose five high-end items, just in case she came across king crab and tuna.
Carrying the fish trap, Ming Dahai walked into the fishing tackle shop. He glanced at it and laughed, "Where did you buy it? We have these too."
“I bought all of these from the fishing tackle shop over there, and they gave me fish food.”
Mingjing casually pointed, his expression indifferent.
The shop owner looked embarrassed and awkward, then chuckled awkwardly, "Miss, my fish traps are pretty good too. I'll give you a discount on how many you want."
"Give me a hundred."
The boss was overjoyed and immediately turned around to tidy up the floor cages in the store.
"I'd like to take a look at that hand-throwing net, a good one, money's no object. Oh, and I also need a water pump," Ming Dahai said with a smile.
"Good, good, good," the boss said with a beaming smile, "I've really struck it rich today."
"Mingjing, let's try using the fish trap today. As long as the small boat can move, it'll be fine."
Ming Dahai rubbed his hands together, eager to go out to sea and try it out.
"Let's go check out the nearshore area; it's time to clean up the puddle from last time."
"Okay, let's go there!"
After buying the traps, Ming Dahai took Ming Jing to the poultry market, where he brought back a whole bag of offal from six different kinds of livestock.
The tricycle stopped at the dock, and Mingjing carried the offal onto the boat. Mingliang also wanted to go out to sea, and Mingdahai could not refuse him and had to agree.
The boats that were supposed to go out to sea at the dock had already done so, and there were only a few boats left.
Mingjing and Mingliang stopped on the boat to stuff the fish traps with their internal organs as bait.
"Mingjing, look at all these ships on the sea!" Ming Dahai asked, puzzled as he steered the ship.
In the past, it was not unusual to see ships at sea, but today there is a ship every two kilometers. Mingjing has seen no less than a dozen ships. If you didn't know better, you would think they were there to stalk us.
"Dad, drive as usual, it's fine."
Every ship has its own piece of sea, no matter how big or small. As long as there are ships at sea, other ships will not try to take over their territory.
To the fishermen, this was wealth; seizing territory was tantamount to cutting off their livelihood, and no one would do that.
So as long as their island is uninhabited, that's fine.
"Dad, did you bring the hook?"
Ming Dahai nodded, "Everything's all set up at the stern, we can just bait it and launch it."
But halfway there, Mingjing suddenly realized that these boats were clearly following her, and if the island were discovered, things would be terrible.
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